A 23-year-old man’s tweet about getting thrown off for speaking Arabic on a Delta flight has gone viral, though reports from fellow passengers challenge his account.

Adam Mohsin Yehya Saleh, an American YouTube personality, vlogger, actor and rapper from New York City, tweeted early Wednesday morning: “We just got kicked out of a Delta airplane because I spoke Arabic to my mom on the phone and with my friend Slim.”

Saleh and his friend were headed to New York from London. He tweeted that after they were removed from the plane, they were “checked for 30 minutes,” the police spoke to them, and they were put on another flight.

Delta released a statement a short time later saying: “Two customers were removed from this flight and later rebooked after a disturbance in the cabin resulted in more than 20 customers expressing their discomfort. We're conducting a full review to understand what transpired. We are taking allegations of discrimination very seriously; our culture requires treating others with respect.”

Accounts of the incident from fellow passengers differ greatly from Saleh's story.

Marvin Avilez, a former Marine who worked in counterintelligence and interrogation, was sitting 13 rows from Saleh on the flight. After Saleh was removed from the flight, Avilez spoke with several passengers who were near the incident and confirmed there was no phone call.

Describing it as "horseplay that got a little out of control," Avilez said passengers told him the friend was "egging on" Saleh and telling him to shout Arabic-sounding phrases.

"During that period of horseplay, people didn't appreciate it," Avilez said. "There was never a sense of fear. There was never a sense that somebody was going to do something. There was a frustration and people were upset with the way the person conducted himself in a public setting."

Avilez said neighboring passengers began to get agitated and one family even left the plane. Delta staff then intervened, and as they escorted him to the front of the plane Avilez said "in my opinion, he started to perform."

"The Delta staff did an amazing job at a moment of frustration."

“The National” reported in its arts and life section in August 2014 that Saleh is an American of Yemeni descent from Brooklyn.

“Since 2012, he has been using social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Tumblr to spread the peaceful message of Islam -– while having some fun along the way. His YouTube channel, TrueStoryASA, run with his partner-in-crime Sheikh Akbar, has more than 600,000 subscribers and he has uploaded nearly 90 videos. His Twitter account, @omgAdamsSaleh, continues to grow rapidly, with close to 90,000 followers,” the 2014 article said.

His videos are a mix of public pranks, family events, impressions and skits that address serious issues. In one of his earliest popular videos, he recorded a social experiment to see how his being in the driver seat of a new Ferrari would affect the way people perceived his ethnicity.

"As soon as we found out that he was a prankster, it was like nothing happened," Avilez said. "Nobody cared."

Saleh's last tweets regarding the flight incident Wednesday said: “We’re heading to our lawyer once in NYC. Thank you all so much for your support! I appreciate every single one of you.”